Li Zhi returned to the palace, busy with the affairs of the Zhengdan Dynasty in the dark, met with tributary envoys from various countries, saw officials from all over the world entering Beijing to gather officials, all kinds of red tape, made him tired enough, at the end of the day, he didn't even have time to eat.

In the evening, a grand feast was held in the palace to celebrate with foreign envoys and officials. But in the face of the same traditional palace dishes, Li Zhi had no appetite.

At this time, he missed the special hot pot he ate in the Li family's compound in Lanxi.

Although after eating the very cool spicy hot pot that day, I encountered an embarrassing thing when I went to the toilet the next day, the chrysanthemums were hot, as if I had eaten the hot pot again.

"Does Your Majesty have no appetite?" Wu kneading Li Zhi's shoulders.

"I don't have much appetite for those dishes, I'm tired of eating, but I miss the hot pot in Lanxi Lizhuang a little."

Wu smiled, "Your Majesty is not scared?" ”

"It's spicy, but it's enjoyable. Don't say it, that Li Xiao is really a talent. ”

At today's Zhengdan Imperial Conference, Li Zhi specially arranged for the envoys of Silla and Khitan to be in front of the envoys of Gogurje and Tuyuhun and the Turks.

Every year, although the envoys from all sides come to the court, the position of the envoys of various countries in the main hall is actually also a rule, and the general rule is to arrange according to the strength of each country.

Since the powerful Turks were defeated in the Taizong period, and even Tiele's Xue Yantuo Khanate was defeated, in fact, there are no comparable countries around the Tang Dynasty today. Although there are now Turkic chieftains in the Western Regions who are strong and have begun to annex weak and self-proclaimed khans, they are no longer what they used to be.

Even Goguryeo, a barbarian who has dominated Liaodong for many years, has actually been beaten by several emperors of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and now it is sunset and sunset.

But no matter what, the Turks, Tiele, Goguryeo, and Tuyuhun are still old forces, and their positions in the hall of the Tang Dynasty have always been at the top.

Although the distant western countries of Fulin and Dashi are also powerful, they are too far away, but they stand in the middle every year, and they don't care much about themselves.

In the past, small countries such as Khitan, Silla, and Dongying have always been at the bottom of the table.

But this year, the Tang Dynasty actually let the envoys of Silla and Khitan stand in front of Goguryeo. The Goguryeo envoys, who used to stand in the forefront, were placed at the bottom of the temple gate this year.

This is a strong signal released by Datang on the first day of the Lunar New Year in front of envoys from various countries.

The envoys of Silla and Khitan had already been summoned to the palace many times before, and they had clearly received the signals transmitted to them by the Tang Emperor.

Datang wants to kill Goguryeo, let Khitan and Silla play forwards, if the two younger brothers perform well, after destroying Goguryeo in the future, Datang will eat meat, and they can drink soup with them.

Khitan and Silla, one in the northwest of Goguryeo and one in the southeast of Goguryeo. It has always been the goal of Goguryeo's foreign development and conquest, and it has been confronted many times and suffered a lot of losses.

has always relied on the suzerainty of the Celestial Empire to maintain their status, and now the Tang Dynasty is willing to send troops to help them teach them a lesson to Goguryeo, an arrogant neighbor, and it is too late for them to be happy, even if the Tang Dynasty fights Goguryeo, it is not really to help them.

But who cares about that, let's kill Goguryeo first.

Everything is going smoothly.

In these increasingly smooth layout arrangements, Li Xiao's Pingliao Policy has also been sorted out more comprehensively and systematically by the bigwigs of the court, and the simple strategy has been formulated into a detailed strategy.

The more detailed the strategy, the more surprised Li Zhi became.

Even prime ministers like Changsun Wuji and Li Ji kept exclaiming.

"Talent, I want to recruit Li Xiao."

Wu asked, "What does Your Majesty want to recruit Li Xiao for?" ”

"Pingliao Ce was made by Li Xiao, such a talent has the best overall view, I want him to join the Pingliao Army of the Eastern Expedition, let him join the army under Cheng Yanjin."

Joining the army is a very common position in Datang, if it is subdivided, there are all kinds of different ranks to join the army, and the positions of joining the army are also high and low. Important military participation belongs to the senior commanders of an army, and there are also various levels of participation in the army.

Li Zhi obviously would not let Li Xiao go to be a small soldier in the army who controls logistics, food or equipment, and let him go, it must be to give full play to his strategic vision and let him be a senior soldier.

"Your Majesty, if you join the army in the army, you must first recruit him as a general of the guard. But Li Xiao is not a military household, let alone a government soldier, and he is the only son in the family, so he does not meet the conditions for government soldiers. ”

"Special affairs, I don't want Li Xiao to be a government soldier, I want to give him a high-level military position, at least a five- or six-grade general."

"Li Xiao is a white ding, and he is not a general, he was specially recruited into the army, and he was directly awarded a high position of five or six grades, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to convince the public in the army, right?"

"Don't let him lead the troops to fight, only let him give advice in the military tent, with Cheng Biting Jin and Xue Rengui here, who dares to mess around?" Li Zhi loves talents very much.

This emperor, who is only in his twenties, is very eager to really grasp the military and political power as soon as possible, so in the past few years after his accession to the throne, he has been promoting talents, many of whom are officials from humble backgrounds or who were excluded and neglected during Taizong's time.

These people were personally promoted and reused by him, and they were all very loyal to the emperor.

Wu shook his head slightly.

The concubine thought that His Majesty could summon Li Xiao, but the concubine thought that Li Xiao would definitely refuse. The concubine looks at this person, he is a strange person, has the heart of idle clouds and wild cranes, is a lonely person who can be willing to be ordinary. ”

Li Zhi didn't believe in Wu's words very much, and he didn't believe that there could be such a calm person, whether it was learning literature or martial arts, whether it was a general's or a scholar's family, who had the ability to really refuse the emperor.

Although some of the gate lord clans in the past were very arrogant and would refuse to go out of office, there are few such examples. Li Xiao is just a small landlord, can he be so arrogant?

Why?

"I don't believe it, why don't we make a bet?" Li Zhidao.

"Does Your Majesty really want to gamble? His Majesty made a bet with his concubines, and it seems that he has never won? ”

Li Zhi patted his head a little helplessly, this is indeed a fact.

"I believe I can win this time."

"If the concubine wins this time, what does Your Majesty plan to use as a lottery?"

"If you can still win, I will go back and give you all the manor fields of King Wu's house." Li Zhi said confidently.

King Wu is Li Ke, the emperor's third brother, who has not committed a crime and is at fault, but the emperor said at this time that he would make a bet on the Wu clan with his property, and his words have already revealed that he is going to attack King Wu.

Wu has long been aware of this, and even he has been involved in this matter for a long time.

In the face of the clan net against the emperor led by Fu Wu Wangke, the eldest grandson Wuji Zhang Luo, Li Zhi instructed, and the Wu family's helpers had already opened and were about to close the net.

"If you lose, what will you do with me?"

"If the concubine loses, then learn to make Li Ji spicy hot pot in person, so that Your Majesty can feast on it."

"Okay, that's a deal."